From Qualcomm Inc.'s "Tech Cave" break room to Sony Corp.'s headquarters building to the new Scripps Green Breast Care Center, Pacific Building Group has made significant contributions to San Diego's construction scene.

It was 1994. South Africa held its first interracial elections, the Dow Jones Industrial Average kicked off the year at 3,754.09, and the San Diego Daily Transcript became the first newspaper in Southern California to add a website component to its distribution channels.

MDC Financial Service Group under the leadership of Michael Dodt has been serving customers by specifically tailoring its services to meet the needs of both the individuals as well as real estate agent partners.

Whether it is ongoing transformation of its signature Liberty Station development or the eventual 3,000-unit mixed-use Millenia development in Chula Vista, The Corky McMillin Cos. continues to break new ground. The Daily Transcript asked a few questions of Mark McMillin, president and CEO of Corky McMillin Cos.

Ralph Rubio, 58, is co-founder of Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill, which operates 170 restaurants in five states. He grew up in Los Angeles and came to San Diego in 1973 to attend San Diego State University. The company’s founding partner, Rubio’s father, Ray Rubio, was a part-time entrepreneur while working as an executive in the plastics industry. Together, they opened the original Rubio’s location in Pacific Beach in 1983, where the interview for this article was held. Rubio’s was a publicly traded company from 1999 until 2010, when it returned to being private with Mill Road Capital LP. Though he stepped down as CEO of Rubio’s in 2004, Ralph still works full-time for the company -- mainly with marketing and advertising efforts, and remains on the company’s board of directors.

Jenny Craig founded the weight management company Jenny Craig Inc. in 1983 with her husband, Sidney. The program was a new concept in the diet industry -- clients meet with a consultant and have prepackaged meals from a planned menu delivered to their homes until they are halfway near their goal weight. Craig's plan advocated moderation and lifestyle changes in an era where pills and crash diets were popular. The company was initially founded in Melbourne, Australia, and is now headquartered in Carlsbad. It has provided services to more than 5 million clients worldwide since its inception, according to its website. There are about 4,000 employees combined in its home office and nationwide company-owned centers. The company was sold to Nestle for about $600 million in 2006. Jenny Craig recently wrote a new children’s book, “I Believe in Genevieve,” drawn from her own experiences growing up.

A flurry of patients are waltzing into Dr. Scott Miller’s plastic surgery office, requesting a fresher look. They aren’t trophy wives, but rather an unlikely candidate that’s worried about their appearance: male technology executives.

Each year, Qualcomm Inc. generates more economic impact in San Diego than one and a half London-sized Olympics games, according to an economic impact analysis of the company released on Friday by the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. and the San Diego Workforce Partnership.

The San Diego Padres are trying to extend their reach into the community while building the team into a contender, team President and CEO Tom Garfinkel said at the South County Economic Development Council's holiday breakfast on Tuesday.

San Diego Home Cooking owner Mel Makaric originally finished school for theater makeup. Makaric opened the first San Diego Home Cooking location 15 years ago and has since opened four other locations in San Diego County.

On a mountain ridge overlooking Linda Vista sits a plot of land that stood undeveloped until 1949. Once blanketed in a sea of sage and chaparral, the mesa now known as Alcala Park is today home to the University of San Diego.

Satisfying the needs of a rising car culture that demanded convenience, San Diego businessman and restaurateur Robert Oscar Peterson opened his first drive-thru Jack in the Box in 1951. Located at the corner of 63rd Street and El Cajon Boulevard, it was the first restaurant to use new two-way intercom technology. A giant jack-in-the-box took customers’ orders through a speaker box, and about three minutes later, they could pick up their 22-cent hamburgers at the drive-thru window. Perhaps not coincidentally, 1951 was the first year the term “fast food” appeared in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Timothy Meissner and Jerry Jacquet, principals of the commercial property management firm that bears their surnames, enjoy an easy camaraderie of two men celebrating 20 years in business together and looking forward to spending another 20 doing what they love.

As president of Poway-based TFW Construction Inc., Ted F. Weeks, III presides over a company whose construction industry roots go back 70 years to Connecticut, and the Ted F. Weeks and Sons Construction Company run by his grandfather.

For the past 119 years, San Diego Hardware has been supplying San Diego with the motto of “having everything under the sun,” and if they don’t have it, you didn’t need it. It’s a saying that has held true, as is evident by the years this hardware company has been in existence.

Charco Construction, a leader in the home remodeling business for over 46 years, has built more beautiful kitchens, bathrooms, family rooms, second-story additions and master suites than any other contractor in San Diego County.

In 2011, the owner of Charco Design & Build Inc., Armando Flores, took his love for lines to a new level when the company made for itself a new and more elaborate foundation from the building blocks of what Flores had been doing for years at Charco Construction Co. Inc.

While bottom-line profitability is necessary for business success, 11 of San Diego’s top executives from a variety of industries said that employee and client satisfaction is an equally important measure, and one that distinguishes successful long-term companies from their short-sighted counterparts, at a Daily Transcript roundtable Sept. 19.

Lee Anne Davis has made quite a name for herself as CEO of PromoVentures, Inc. by putting the names of her customers' companies on a wide array of promotional items, such as T-shirts, polos, hats, pens, ice scrapers and even bar stools.

In business for over 65 years, Morley Builders, which specializes in projects built primarily of reinforced concrete, has not only completed a plethora of construction projects in Southern California, but has also built upon its reputation as a company with a team of skilled, creative people, who are ready to meet any construction challenge.

When in 1938, LeRoy Neville Baker paid $4,000 to purchase the Dietrich Electric Shop in Escondido, he could hardly have imagined that the company he founded, Baker Electric Inc., would still be thriving nearly three-quarters of a century later, with his great-grandson, Ted Baker, its president and CEO.

In the early '80s, a government employee named Rod Tuttle was working for the U.S. Navy in Pt. Loma in the infancy of what is now known as the Naval Tactical Data System. NTDS is a computer-to-computer information system that, essentially, informs a Navy commander what's going on around his ship and enables him to make strategic and tactical evaluations and decisions, rapidly and accurately.

Oceanside's North County Transit District is shaking things up in the transit industry. A new business model, new buses, lower fares, customer improvements, and a lean and mean, forward-thinking board of directors and management team are combining to create more riders and more revenue for the transit district which operates COASTER trains, SPRINTER light rail and BREEZE buses.

If necessity is the mother of invention, there is perhaps no greater necessity than the health of human beings and the eradication of disease, worldwide. To this end, scientists regularly invent drugs to treat a wide range of maladies and bring them to market, hopeful for a multimillion-dollar acquisition by a large pharmaceutical company.